ABSTRACT Applying selected psychoanalytic constructs from Freud and Klein to recent pervasive rhetoric around anti-immigration in the United States, we conducted a critical discourse analysis of media and policy representations of immigrants in recent news coverage in the United States regarding the Trump Administration’s response to (1) asylum claims related to domestic violence and gang violence and (2) undocumented immigrants. We illustrate how feared bad object/immigrants are constructed alongside the imagined good object/nationalism, as exemplified by Trump’s motto – “Make America Great Again” (MAGA). We argue how this paranoid-schizoid position reifies racism veiled under nationalism and discuss how social workers could work together toward the depressive position re-imagining America-as-the-whole.

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恐惧政治与全球焦虑：从精神分析的角度对美国近期反移民政策的批判性分析

摘要 将弗洛伊德和克莱因的精选精神分析结构应用于美国最近普遍存在的反移民言论，我们对美国最近关于特朗普政府对（特朗普政府）回应的新闻报道中移民的媒体和政策表述进行了批判性话语分析。 1) 与家庭暴力和帮派暴力有关的庇护申请，以及 (2) 无证移民。我们说明了可怕的坏对象/移民是如何与想象中的好对象/民族主义一起构建的，正如特朗普的座右铭——“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）所体现的那样。我们争论这种偏执-分裂的立场如何具体化隐藏在民族主义之下的种族主义，并讨论社会工作者如何共同努力朝着重新想象美国整体的抑郁立场迈进。